Cindy McCain Stole Drugs From Charity

Cindy McCain with all the millions of dollars she has and still had at the time, Stole drugs to feed her addiction from a CHARITY. A Charity, she could of used her money to get her drugs elsewhere. She stole so many they noticed. This is the type of person she is.



John McCain POW loves his country so much he helps thwart the investigation of Charles Keating and causing harm to many Americans in the process. He is a criminal, not a hero. This is the type of person John McCain is.



All he is trying to do is put lipstick on a pig. Him being the pig and Sarah Palin and his supposed 'Maverick' status being the lipstick. Fact is, he is still a pig and that lipstick should of been Joe Lieberman if he was a 'maverick' and for Palin I think her very extreme views (God wants her to drill and was for Iraq,jail for abortion,secession,creationist, etc.) will be apparent soon.



John McCain is banking on people taking what he says on face value. If you look at what he has actually done, you'll find his record does not match what he says. Truth is, unless he has early Alzheimer's he lies every speech he gives, and he is almost always wrong on his true record.



An Iraq Veteran at the RNC yelled out McCain's true voting record on Veteran issues while McCain was speaking, McCain called him static, ground noise. That is who John McCain is.

How Your Prescription Drug Info Could Keep You From Medical Insurance

Does this surprise anyone?

t r u t h o u t | Prescription Data Used to Assess Consumers

Monday 04 August 2008

by: Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post

Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health 'credit report' drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans.

Collecting and analyzing personal health information in commercial databases is a fledgling industry, but one poised to take off as the nation enters the age of electronic medical records. While lawmakers debate how best to oversee the shift to computerized records, some insurers have already begun testing systems that tap into not only prescription drug information, but also data about patients held by clinical and pathological laboratories.

Traditionally, insurance companies have judged an applicant's risk by gathering medical records from physicians' offices. But the new tools offer the advantage of being "electronic, fast and cheap," said Mark Franzen, managing director of Milliman IntelliScript, which provides consumers' personal drug profiles to insurers.

The trend holds promise for improved health care and cost savings, but privacy and consumer advocates fear it is taking place largely outside the scrutiny of federal health regulators and lawmakers.

Ingenix, a Minnesota-based health information services company that had $1.3 billion in sales last year - and Wisconsin-based rival Milliman - say the drug profiles are an accurate, less expensive alternative to seeking physician records, which can take months and hundreds of dollars to obtain. They note that consumers authorize the data release and that the services can save insurance companies millions of dollars and benefit consumers anxious for a decision.

"Some insurers can make a decision in the same day, or right on the spot," Franzen said. "That's the real 'value-add.' "

But the practice also illustrates how electronic data gathered for one purpose can be used and marketed for another - often without consumers' knowledge, privacy advocates say. And they argue that although consumers sign consent forms, they effectively have to authorize the data release if they want insurance.

"As health care moves into the digital age, there are more and more companies holding vast amounts of patients' health information," said Joy Pritts, research professor at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute. "Most people don't even know these organizations exist. Unfortunately the federal health privacy rule does not cover many of them. . . . The lack of transparency with how all of this works is disturbing."

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